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"I thought the first day, maybe it would get better. Then the second day it was the same. And the third day … After that, I just thought, 'I'm going to hurt the team. I've got to say something and get off this medication.' It might be making sure my heart doesn't stop. But I told my doctor I can't pitch like this," Jansen said (via The Orange County Register).

Jansen, who spent 11 days on the disabled list with an irregular heartbeat earlier this month, went to his doctor after blowing his fourth save of the season last Saturday and got his blessing to stop talking the medication.

"I just told him, as a normal person it's fine. You could go to work," Jansen said. "But those three games I had zero adrenaline. My mind was saying, 'You gotta go' but my body wasn't working. I can't pitch like that.

"Even as long as I've been doing this, every time I pitch in a tight situation my anxiety level, the good anxiety, is through the roof. Those three games, I was 'Where is it? It's not there.' It's no fun pitching like that."

Jansen struggled again Tuesday in an 8-4 win over the Rangers giving up three hits and two earned runs in the ninth inning, but said after the game (via mlb.com): "I'll be all right. At some point, I'll figure it out."